"Something in the Air" is one of the oddest, most brilliant one-shots ever--written by Speedy Keen, checking, but it's the image of Newman that comes to my mind when I think about how visually perverse they were as messengers of the impending revolution.
https://cdn.discogs.com/hlY6LtXVrhCkiaN0AdROIRe2qzs=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb()/discogs-images/A-303487-1306315192.jpeg.jpg
― clemenza, Thursday, 31 March 2016 12:58 (eight years ago) link
Blimey, RIP Andy
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Thursday, 31 March 2016 13:12 (eight years ago) link
Zaha Hadid
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Thursday, 31 March 2016 15:04 (eight years ago) link
bloody hell it's a busy day for the grim reaper
― Upset by racist left wingers calling me an egg (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 31 March 2016 15:31 (eight years ago) link
Really upset about Zaha: the Times sent me to interview her BITD and instead of being arsey and intimidating, she was raucously funny and wore her intelligence with a great deal of style. I'll miss her putting the wind up what can be a very boysy profession.
― jedi slimane (suzy), Thursday, 31 March 2016 15:55 (eight years ago) link
Imre Kertész
― jmm, Thursday, 31 March 2016 16:04 (eight years ago) link
aw RIP Corbet, Brain, Hadid (with apologies to Kertész for being unfamiliar with his work but RIP to him too)
what a great theme tune Sorry! had
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 31 March 2016 18:58 (eight years ago) link
Oops Corbett
Ronnie ;-;
― Ecomigrant gnomics (darraghmac), Thursday, 31 March 2016 19:06 (eight years ago) link
Ah Zaha was the architect who live walked out on the today program a few months back, she didn't sound like someone who takes much shit.
― calzino, Thursday, 31 March 2016 21:15 (eight years ago) link
She took absolutely no shit and she maintained this take-no-shit/antagonise-the-chauvinists hardline while dressed from top to tail in black Issey Miyake.
― jedi slimane (suzy), Thursday, 31 March 2016 22:30 (eight years ago) link
This Morning agony aunt Denise Robertson
― nate woolls, Friday, 1 April 2016 09:34 (eight years ago) link
Gato Barbieri
― Woke Up Scully (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 April 2016 02:11 (eight years ago) link
This is the year that I've realized when you hit a certain age it starts to feel like celebrities are dying more rapidly, because more of them are people you actually know and not old-timey silent movie comedians your parents know.
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Sunday, 3 April 2016 02:12 (eight years ago) link
RIP
Listening to his Don Cherry collaboration right now
― kevin smith what a bro (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 3 April 2016 02:54 (eight years ago) link
nearly all the old-timey silent movie comedians have been dead for 40 years, Mr Hyperbole
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 April 2016 04:53 (eight years ago) link
lol duh
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Sunday, 3 April 2016 04:58 (eight years ago) link
Senor Obvio
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Sunday, 3 April 2016 04:59 (eight years ago) link
congratulations on missing the point morbs
― Todd Palin in snowmobile crash (I know it's serious) (stevie), Sunday, 3 April 2016 12:32 (eight years ago) link
RIP Gato :(
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Sunday, 3 April 2016 12:59 (eight years ago) link
i was half asleep, gimme a break
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 3 April 2016 17:33 (eight years ago) link
Cesare Maldini. I saw him in 1997 in Bergamo, near the Atalanta stadium, where we were both headed. Always presumed he was there to check out Inzaghi, who got his first cap shortly after.
― Madchen, Sunday, 3 April 2016 19:01 (eight years ago) link
Getatchew Mekuria, aged 81. Posted by The Ex.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Monday, 4 April 2016 13:08 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theex.nl/news.html
RIP, Getatchew, great sax player
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 April 2016 19:15 (eight years ago) link
merle haggard
http://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/country-music-legend-merle-haggard-turned-79-years-old-wednesday
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 17:35 (eight years ago) link
holy fuck
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 17:36 (eight years ago) link
AAAAGHGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
this year is so fucking lame
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link
What???!?
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 18:03 (eight years ago) link
rip to merle haggard, okie from muskogee is one of my karaoke go tos
― trickle-down ergonomics (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 18:05 (eight years ago) link
Love Merle, RIP
― disco Polo (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 18:06 (eight years ago) link
79 added to 69 on the list of years under evaluation.
(Also, fuck)
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 19:10 (eight years ago) link
Jesus Merle better get his own RIP thread as long as Bowies or this place can go to hell
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 19:23 (eight years ago) link
Aw, man, this year is the worst :-(
― ailsa, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 19:39 (eight years ago) link
bowie drummer dennis davis
http://www.nme.com/news/david-bowie/92812
― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 April 2016 17:13 (eight years ago) link
Bummer, what a rhythm section that was. RIP Dennis.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 April 2016 17:17 (eight years ago) link
Bill Henderson, jazz vocalist who did quite a bit of acting in the 80s and 90s (he was as the cop in Clue!).
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 7 April 2016 20:21 (eight years ago) link
Barbara Turner, screenwriter (Petulia, Georgia, The Company) and mother of Jennifer Jason Leigh
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/barbara-turner-dead-screenwriter-producer-881262
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 April 2016 16:15 (eight years ago) link
Jim Ridley, editor and longtime film critic for the Nashville Scene, dies at 50:
http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2016/04/08/scene-editor-jim-ridley-dies-at-50#more
I think he hadn't been writing as much about film since he became editor in chief, but he was a good critic. He got national distribution for a while, while the Scene was part of the Voice/New Times empire.
― A nationally known air show announcer/personality (tipsy mothra), Friday, 8 April 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link
RIP, 50 is way too soon! i grew up reading ridley, he was one of the few consistently good writers in local nashville media in the 90's.
― ulysses, Friday, 8 April 2016 19:38 (eight years ago) link
musician/composer Tony Conrad
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 9 April 2016 17:37 (eight years ago) link
Almost getting blasé to this succession of excellent people dying. RIP Tony.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 April 2016 17:39 (eight years ago) link
Howard Marks. Currently honouring his memory in an obvious way, RIP.
― jedi slimane (suzy), Sunday, 10 April 2016 22:51 (eight years ago) link
No more "Mr Nice" guy.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Sunday, 10 April 2016 23:22 (eight years ago) link
Winston Moseley, killer of Kitty Genovesehttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/nyregion/winston-moseley-81-killer-of-kitty-genovese-dies-in-prison.html
(genuinely surprised that he was still alive)
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 00:58 (eight years ago) link
David Gest
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/7070076/David-Gest-has-been-found-dead-in-his-hotel-room.html?token=1434403479
― Alba, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 15:02 (eight years ago) link
David, who appeared on the most recent series of Celebrity Big Brother, was set to begin a UK tour 'David Gest Is Not Dead, But Alive With Soul' in July.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 15:12 (eight years ago) link
The show must go on!
― Alba, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 15:17 (eight years ago) link
It probably seems kind of ghoulish - in fact (I'm assuming) it's incredibly ghoulish since it refers to the scene where he was asleep in the Celebrity Big Brother house when Angie Bowie heard that her ex-husband was dead. She told a US reality TV show star "David's dead", and before she could clarify, the younger lady ran off to tell everyone else that Gest was dead.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link
Reminds me of Joan Rivers' sadly unfulfilled 'Before They Close The Lid' tour
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 15:22 (eight years ago) link
Mr. Moseley, a psychopathic serial killer and necrophiliac
nytimes not really beating around the bush there
― karla jay vespers, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 15:31 (eight years ago) link